h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

"They've got an awful lot of coffee in Brazil."

And no, I'm not going to do a samba for you.

Since it is a musical question the answer must be a zillion tons of coffee.

176645

PS I'll leave it to Mycroft to come up with the actual current Brazilian coffee export figures.

Well done, 176645. The correct answer is a zillion tons.

Now it's your turn.

Thanks Gnomon,

I have to go to work right now but I'll come up with something by the end of the day

Anybody know where that tune came from? Or what the real title is?
TC set it off and I can hear it reverberating (percolating?) in my brainy areas - with a female voice - maybe a group like the Andrew Sisters - was it just a 'hit tune' (like "Yes We Have No Bananas") from the food-frenzied-50s or did it come from a movie or broadway show?
And what WAS the name of it?
Did the Python people use it in "Brazil"?
jwf (quietly chewing his mous-tache)

I believe it was written by Bob Hilliard and Dick Miles. It was sung be a few different people including Frank Sinatra and Nat King Cole. It is called "The Coffee Song".

But there are far more songs about

OK, here is the question - sorry for the delay.

Who said "My name means the shape I am - and a good handsome shape it is too."

176645

That sounds suspiciously like Humpty Dumpty in Through the Looking Glass.

Congratualtions, Mycroft you are, of course correct.

Beth

PS what took you so long?

Long indeed!

What's the next number in the sequence 6 2 9 5 1 4 1 ?

2?

Nope

OK back to the drawing board!

I think this question's broken. I put it in a search engine and nothing showed up.

I'm going to guess that the repeats itself in reverse: 62951415926. If this is the case, then the next number is 5. There's not a whole lot of evidence to suggest this, but I've been staring at this number for two hours, and that's the best answer I've got.

I would guess that it is the number of letters in the words of a well-known saying. But I can't be bothered to work it out. The clue is the two "1"s, which can only be "a" or "I".

On the other hand, that would not seem the type of question Mycroft would set. It's probably the number of his Bank account.

Our local radio station used to have a silly quiz where they would quote obscure numbers and listeners had to identify them. There was always someone who knew the answer, it's amazing. The easiest one was probably the number plate of James Bond's car (can't remember it myself) - others were numbers of famous planes or trains, phone numbers, the equivalents of "57" as in Heinz - or anywhere else where the same number could be heard or read more than once. Good idea, but I can't even find an answer along those lines to Mycroft's question, although it would be more the type of question he would set.

As I am well known for my numerical dyslexia the only answer I can suggest is the correct answer to everything ...

42 !!!!

42's not going to work as a single digit is required. It is a number which should be familiar to almost anyone, and Arthbard's come closest to the right way of finding it.

OK now we're talking.
I know I'm late and I see some people have been stumped but please Mycroft, I just got here and I demand to have at least two hours to mull this one over.
62 - 95 - 141 hmmmm.....

jwf

It's pi in reverse! The next number is three!